While the Code of Federal Regulations has regulations that apply to Section 337 investigations, these regulations leave a significant amount of discretion to the individual ALJs to set rules for the investigations that they preside over.
Over the past five years, five of the six Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) at the International Trade Commission (ITC) have retired and four new ALJs have been appointed. Former Chief.
In 2011, the Federal Circuit in TianRui Grp. Co. v. Int'l Trade Comm'n affirmed the International Trade Commission's (ITC) authority to look to extraterritorial conduct of a respondent to determine whether that.
In 2011, the Federal Circuit in TianRui Grp. Co. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n affirmed the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) authority to look to extraterritorial conduct of a respondent.
USITC joins ongoing Ericsson v Samsung dispute
03-02-2021
01-08-2018
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched an investigation into Samsung regarding alleged infringements of Swedish company Ericsson’s wireless technology patents.
Ericsson’s complaint filed with the USITC seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist order targeting the South Korea-based Samsung, if it is found to have been importing and selling products infringing on Ericsson patents in the US. The notice was filed on February 2.
The patents involved are US numbers 7,151,430, 6,879,849, 7,286,823 and 9,313,178. The ‘430, ‘849 and ‘178 patents reference encryption and mobile communications technologies patented by Ericsson in 2004, 2002 and 2012 respectively.